it slowed mine down a ton and i lost a ton of battery life and it lost a ton of stability. you are so lucky! It takes 20 seconds for the music app to open!

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You just need to jailbreak it and remove lots of unneeded things. That and a few custom modifications make mine run really nice. And as a bonus, it gets around 30 days of standby. That's with 1 hour email, calendar, contacts fetch turned on.

Get ready because even 4th generation iPod touch owners are about to be outdated in a month.

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And enjoy all your iPad 2's because those two* will be outdated next year. *Pun intended

And have fun with all your fancy Macs because they'll be outdated next year.

And watch lots of that Apple TV because-yes, that will be outdated soon.

Treasure all those calls on those iPhone 4! Because they'll be less fun once its outdated in a month or so!

And... and... those iPods! They'll be outdated soon! Careful! Time is out to outdate all your fancy tech toys! No one is safe! Dont attempt to stop time! Because it is impossible!

Guess what! Your own skin and hair is becoming outdated slowly! Time is out to get us all! Everybody get inside a DeLorean! DX

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I think by outdated he means that they don't get anymore software updates and are no longer supported by Apple.

I don't forsee the iPod touch 4g being outdated so fast. It has the A4 chip and a retina display, so whenever the iPad 1 and iPhone 4 (all have the same hardware pretty much) are no longer supported, the iPod touch 4g won't be. Perhaps all three of the aforementioned devices will last longer because of said hardware (minus the retina display for the iPad 1). I'm actually suprised the 3rd gen is still supported in iOS 5 and it looks to be running pretty smooth too.

no I just think it is stupid that you can buy a 200-300 $ product and only be able to update for a year before apple outdates you so you will buy a new touch and they can make more billions.

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That's how companies make money. Besides, what would be so cool about having hardware that can't support updates? If Apple never came out with new products, lots of people would still have the original Apple 1, the original iPhone, iPod touch 1g, and iPad 1 (i'd be fine with an iPad 1).

You just need to jailbreak it and remove lots of unneeded things. That and a few custom modifications make mine run really nice. And as a bonus, it gets around 30 days of standby. That's with 1 hour email, calendar, contacts fetch turned on.

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Ok, I updated my 2nd gen iPod touch that I keep in my car (it was on 3.13) to 4.2.1. Jailbroke it, removed all the unnecessary launch daemons. It was still slow and painful to use. Maybe I've been spoiled by the speed of my iPhone 4, but never again I will touch a 2nd gen device on 4.X
To the people have 2nd gen devices on 4.X I envy your patients with those devices.

Ok, I updated my 2nd gen iPod touch that I keep in my car (it was on 3.13) to 4.2.1. Jailbroke it, removed all the unnecessary launch daemons. It was still slow and painful to use. Maybe I've been spoiled by the speed of my iPhone 4, but never again I will touch a 2nd gen device on 4.X
To the people have 2nd gen devices on 4.X I envy your patients with those devices.

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Its takes a lot of custom modding and tweaking before 4.2.1 runs nicely on the iPod Touch 2G. Removing the launch daemons alone doesn't work.

Sorry boys, it's the circle of life... My Gen3 is running fine with all the latest updates. Battery life is even pretty good. I wouldn't be surprised or all that bummed if iOS5 wouldn't run on it. Next time buy your Touch at the beginning of it's lifecycle and then it won't be outdated so quickly.

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